Named Account Executive - Marketing Cloud

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Munich, Germany, Germany · Remote

Sales role focused on selling Salesforce Marketing Cloud, which is described as the #1 AI CRM. The role involves managing accounts, driving pipeline development, and engaging with prospects to position Salesforce solutions. While the company and its products heavily feature AI, the core function of this role is sales, not building or researching AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will be responsible for managing new and existing Marketing Cloud accounts for Manufacturing & Automotive
  2. Handling strategic accounts and relationships across the team
  3. Drive Pipeline development through a combination of cold calling, email campaigns and market sector knowledge/intelligence together with the Business Development Manager.
  4. Build and maintain a sales pipeline to ensure over-achievement within the designated market sector(s).
  5. Engage with prospect organisations to position salesforce solutions through strategic value-based selling, case definition, return on investment analysis, references and analyst data.

Skills

Required

  • net new business and existing business upsell
  • Software Sales experience
  • Fluent in German & English
  • track achievement against targets and metrics
  • Credibility internally and with customers
  • sales forecasting abilities and revenue achievement
  • overachievement of quota and revenue goals

Nice to have

  • cold calling
  • email campaigns
  • market sector knowledge/intelligence
  • value-based selling
  • case definition
  • return on investment analysis
  • references and analyst data

What the JD emphasized

  • track record of closing new business
  • sales experience selling technology
  • breaking into new accounts
  • Fluent in German & English
  • Shown track achievement against targets and metrics
  • Credibility internally and with customers
  • Validated sales forecasting abilities and revenue achievement
  • Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals